sialage juice ?

possum · Post by **possum** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:11 pm

My grandpa told me that he drank some of the juice that squeezs out of sialage, and that it got him drunk ( I wonder if it gave him a belly ache).
Has anyone tried this? Or has anyone tried distilling this fluid? I never had a silo, so I wondered if anyone else has tried this. Sialage sure smells fermented.

Watershed · Post by **Watershed** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:01 am

I've heard of using the juice at the bottom of corn stalk silos - which has a lot of sugar in it. Silage over here though is fermented fodder grass and smells quite a lot like a slurry pit, there's no way I'd ever let it in the house let alone try drinking it.

Big J · Post by **Big J** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:13 am

Ian Smiley has a small section about it in his Corn Whiskey book. He calls it 'Corn Squeezin's Whiskey.'

Cheers,
J

Rocky_Creek · Post by **Rocky_Creek** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:10 am

Gag a maggot from 50 feet.

Post by **Tater** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:16 am

here farmers mix sialage with chickin shit to make feed for cattle.

drunk2much · Post by **drunk2much** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:59 am

Im not gunna try to consume anything that a hog would eat. I vomited one time from the smell of rotting corn it was that bad. though the left over corn at the bottom of the fermentors is great bait for hog hunting.

There are only two type of landowner One's with hogs and One's fixing to have hogs.

junkyard dawg · Post by **junkyard dawg** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:58 am

I don't think I could get that thirsty..

TRANSPLANTED HILLBILLY · Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:24 pm

My dad told me that ,sialage juice better known as Corn Squeezins to us hillbillies,and Ian Smiley, was the best hard alcohol he ever had. He asked me if I could make some, and I asked if he had a silo full of corn. He called me a smart ass and had another sip.

So yes it can be distilled with nothing added.

Post by **golden pond** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:42 am

Silage juice is as good as it gets for a corn mash. I wish there were some around here now. All my neighbors have got rid of their cows and went to raising grain now. My next door neighbor and I are down to 44 head now and all we feed is rolled hay.

hornedrhodent · Post by **hornedrhodent** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:49 am

="drunk2much"
Im not gunna try to consume anything that a hog would eat.

Bloke I used to know (before they changed the laws about what you could feed pigs) used to get the scraps from the management lunch room at the steelworks l worked at. Used to claim that the management ate the same stuff as his pigs.